December 2010
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31 treasures for January
One of the greatest lessons that I learnt from taking part in the 26 Treasures project was the power of noticing – of taking the time to notice an object, and letting free whatever associations it freed inside of you. A river of stones - www.ariverofstones.blogspot.com - is a project that invites you to take the time to notice one thing each day in January, your ‘small stone’, and write about it,...
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Stories at Christmas
How can you tell the story of a family through its treasures, in particular a special collection of treasures? That is the original premise of Edmund de Waal’s family memoir – ‘The hare with the amber eyes’. The author becomes intrigued by his great-uncle’s collection of 264 netsuke (small Japanese carvings), and when they are passed on to him after his great-uncle dies, he begins to trace their...
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Christmas and its treasures
This week, the 26 Treasures team met to discuss the future of the project. It was a very positive meeting. And it seems the project has a very positive future. So let’s celebrate with a blog post from our guest writer, the bestselling Scottish author Sara Sheridan. With Christmas only a few weeks away, Sara reflects on this winter celebration, and looks at the history of some of the...